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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29753961 Title: Cleopatra's nose : essays on the unexpected Author: Daniel J Boorstin; Ruth Frankel Boorstin; Daniel J. Boorstin Collection (Library of Congress) Publisher: New York : Random House, ©1994. ISBN/ISSN: 0679435050 : 9780679435051 OCLC:29753961

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Cleopatra's nose : essays on the unexpected

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Cleopatra's nose : essays on the unexpected

Author:	Daniel J Boorstin; Ruth Frankel Boorstin; Daniel J. Boorstin Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher:	New York : Random House, ©1994.
Edition/Format:	Book : English : 1st trade edView all editions and formats
Summary:	This provocative new collection of essays by a Pulitzer Prize winner deals with the challenging themes of discovery and surprise in history. Cleopatra's Nose is not a miscellany but rather a selection of recent essays illustrating specific subjects that have preoccupied Boorstin for several decades. Tantalizing themes all: How sometimes discovery only increases our ignorance. What were the specific historical Read more...
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Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Daniel J Boorstin; Ruth Frankel Boorstin; Daniel J. Boorstin Collection (Library of Congress) Find more information about:
ISBN:	0679435050 : 9780679435051
OCLC Number:	29753961
Notes:	Includes index.
Description:	xii, 210 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents:	1. Realms of discovery: The age of negative discovery -- The cultures of pride and awe -- An odd couple: discoverers and inventors -- 2. Trials of conscience: The writer as conscience of the world -- Our conscience-wracked nation -- 3. New-world opportunities: Printing and the Constitution -- Roles of the president's house -- The making of a capitol -- An un-American capital -- 4. The cautionary science: Tocqueville's America -- Custine's Russia -- 4. The fourth kingdom: Darwinian expectations -- Statistical expectations -- Artificial selection -- The great separation -- 6. A personal postscript: My father, lawyer Sam Boorstin -- Land of the unexpected.
Responsibility:	Daniel J. Boorstin ; edited by Ruth F. Boorstin.
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This provocative new collection of essays by a Pulitzer Prize winner deals with the challenging themes of discovery and surprise in history. Cleopatra's Nose is not a miscellany but rather a selection of recent essays illustrating specific subjects that have preoccupied Boorstin for several decades. Tantalizing themes all: How sometimes discovery only increases our ignorance. What were the specific historical opportunities in the New World? How has the fourth kingdom - the kingdom of machines - contradicted Darwinian expectations, contributed to a confusion of statistics, created the need for the unnecessary, and highlighted the paradoxes of science and the politics of common sense? In a "personal postscript," Boorstin gives us a memorable and affectionate portrait of his father and optimistically celebrates the United States as the Land of the Unexpected.

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